The film was produced by 1001 Inventions, a British foundation aiming to propagate the achievements of the Golden Age of Islam.
Both the film and the exhibition were created to coincide with the United Nations campaign celebrating the International Year of Light, operated by UNESCO.[4]
Within the film, Sharif's character helps his granddaughter with a challenging homework assignment about Ibn Al-Haytham, the 11th century scholar who made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception.

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Omar Sharif
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Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor. He began his career in his country in the 1950s. His films included Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Funny Girl and he was nominated for an Academy Award. He won three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award, Sharif, who spoke Arabic, English, Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian fluently, was often cast as a foreigner of some sort. He bridled at travel restrictions imposed by the government of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, the estrangement led to an amicable divorce from his wife, the iconic Egyptian actress Faten Hamama. He had converted to Islam in order to marry her and he was a lifelong horse racing enthusiast, and at one time ranked among the worlds top contract bridge players. Omar Sharif, whose adopted surname means noble or nobleman in Arabic, was born on 10 April 1932 as Michel Dimitri Chalhoub in Alexandria, Egypt, to a Melkite Catholic family. His father, Joseph Chalhoub, a precious woods merchant originally from Zahlé, Lebanon, moved to the city of Alexandria in the early 20th century. His family moved to Cairo when he was four and his mother, Claire Saada, was a noted society hostess, and Egypts King Farouk was a regular visitor prior to his deposition in 1952. In his youth, Sharif studied at Victoria College, Cairo and he later graduated from Cairo University with a degree in mathematics and physics. He worked for a while in his fathers precious wood business before studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, in 1955, Sharif changed his name and converted to Islam in order to marry fellow Egyptian actress Faten Hamama. In 1954, Sharif began his career in Egypt with a role in Shaytan Al-Sahra. In the same year he appeared in Sira Fi al-Wadi and he quickly rose to stardom, appearing in Egyptian productions, including La Anam in 1958, Sayyidat al-Qasr in 1959 and the Anna Karenina adaptation Nahr el hub in 1961. He and his wife co-starred in several movies as romantic leads, Sharifs first English-language role was that of Sherif Ali in David Leans historical epic Lawrence of Arabia in 1962. Casting Sharif in what is now considered one of the most demanding supporting roles in Hollywood history was complex and risky as he was virtually unknown at the time outside of Egypt. However, as historian Steven Charles Caton notes, Lean insisted on using ethnic actors when possible to make the film authentic, Sharif would later use his ambiguous ethnicity in other films, I spoke French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and even Arabic, he said. As Sharif noted, his accent enabled him to play the role of a foreigner without anyone knowing exactly where I came from, over the next few years, Sharif co-starred in other films, including Behold a Pale Horse. Director Fred Zinnemann said he chose Sharif partly on the suggestion of David Lean and he said he was an absolutely marvelous actor, If you possibly can take a look at him

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Islamic Golden Age
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This period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Sack of Baghdad in 1258 AD. A few contemporary scholars place the end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries, the metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism. There is no definition of term, and depending on whether it is used with a focus on cultural or on military achievement. During the early 20th century, the term was used only occasionally, the Muslim government heavily patronized scholars. The money spent on the Translation Movement for some translations is estimated to be equivalent to twice the annual research budget of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council. The best scholars and notable translators, such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today, the House of Wisdom was a library established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq by Caliph al-Mansur. During this period, the Muslims showed a strong interest in assimilating the knowledge of the civilizations that had been conquered. They also excelled in fields, in particular philosophy, science. For a long period of time the personal physicians of the Abbasid Caliphs were often Assyrian Christians, among the most prominent Christian families to serve as physicians to the caliphs were the Bukhtishu dynasty. Throughout the 4th to 7th centuries, Christian scholarly work in the Greek, the House of Wisdom was founded in Baghdad in 825, modelled after the Academy of Gondishapur. It was led by Christian physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq, with the support of Byzantine medicine, many of the most important philosophical and scientific works of the ancient world were translated, including the work of Galen, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy and Archimedes. Many scholars of the House of Wisdom were of Christian background, the use of paper spread from China into Muslim regions in the eighth century, arriving in Al-Andalus on the Iberian peninsula, present-day Spain in the 10th century. It was easier to manufacture than parchment, less likely to crack than papyrus, Islamic paper makers devised assembly-line methods of hand-copying manuscripts to turn out editions far larger than any available in Europe for centuries. It was from countries that the rest of the world learned to make paper from linen. Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sina played a role in saving the works of Aristotle, whose ideas came to dominate the non-religious thought of the Christian. Ibn Sina and other such as al-Kindi and al-Farabi combined Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism with other ideas introduced through Islam. Arabic philosophic literature was translated into Latin and Ladino, contributing to the development of modern European philosophy, during this period, non-Muslims were allowed to flourish relative to treatment of religious minorities in the Christian Byzantine Empire. The Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides, who lived in Andalusia, is an example, in epistemology, Ibn Tufail wrote the novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan and in response Ibn al-Nafis wrote the novel Theologus Autodidactus

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United Nations
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict, at its founding, the UN had 51 member states, there are now 193. The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states, the UNs mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies. The organization participated in actions in Korea and the Congo. After the end of the Cold War, the UN took on major military, the UN has six principal organs, the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Secretariat, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Trusteeship Council. UN System agencies include the World Bank Group, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UNESCO, the UNs most prominent officer is the Secretary-General, an office held by Portuguese António Guterres since 2017. Non-governmental organizations may be granted consultative status with ECOSOC and other agencies to participate in the UNs work, the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, and a number of its officers and agencies have also been awarded the prize. Other evaluations of the UNs effectiveness have been mixed, some commentators believe the organization to be an important force for peace and human development, while others have called the organization ineffective, corrupt, or biased. Following the catastrophic loss of life in the First World War, the earliest concrete plan for a new world organization began under the aegis of the US State Department in 1939. It incorporated Soviet suggestions, but left no role for France, four Policemen was coined to refer to four major Allied countries, United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China, which emerged in the Declaration by United Nations. Roosevelt first coined the term United Nations to describe the Allied countries, the term United Nations was first officially used when 26 governments signed this Declaration. One major change from the Atlantic Charter was the addition of a provision for religious freedom, by 1 March 1945,21 additional states had signed. Each Government pledges itself to cooperate with the Governments signatory hereto, the foregoing declaration may be adhered to by other nations which are, or which may be, rendering material assistance and contributions in the struggle for victory over Hitlerism. During the war, the United Nations became the term for the Allies. To join, countries had to sign the Declaration and declare war on the Axis, at the later meetings, Lord Halifax deputized for Mr. Eden, Wellington Koo for T. V. Soong, and Mr Gromyko for Mr. Molotov. The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, the General Assembly selected New York City as the site for the headquarters of the UN, and the facility was completed in 1952. Its site—like UN headquarters buildings in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi—is designated as international territory, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie, was elected as the first UN Secretary-General

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Ibn al-Haytham
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Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham, also known by the Latinization Alhazen or Alhacen, was an Arab Muslim scientist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Ibn al-Haytham made significant contributions to the principles of optics, astronomy, mathematics and he was the first to explain that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to ones eyes. He spent most of his close to the court of the Fatimid Caliphate in Cairo and earned his living authoring various treatises. In medieval Europe, Ibn al-Haytham was honored as Ptolemaeus Secundus or simply called The Physicist and he is also sometimes called al-Baṣrī after his birthplace Basra in Iraq, or al-Miṣrī. Ibn al-Haytham was born c.965 in Basra, which was part of the Buyid emirate. Alhazen arrived in Cairo under the reign of Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim, Alhazen continued to live in Cairo, in the neighborhood of the famous University of al-Azhar, until his death in 1040. Legend has it that after deciding the scheme was impractical and fearing the caliphs anger, during this time, he wrote his influential Book of Optics and continued to write further treatises on astronomy, geometry, number theory, optics and natural philosophy. Among his students were Sorkhab, a Persian from Semnan who was his student for three years, and Abu al-Wafa Mubashir ibn Fatek, an Egyptian prince who learned mathematics from Alhazen. Alhazen made significant contributions to optics, number theory, geometry, astronomy, Alhazens work on optics is credited with contributing a new emphasis on experiment. In al-Andalus, it was used by the prince of the Banu Hud dynasty of Zaragossa and author of an important mathematical text. A Latin translation of the Kitab al-Manazir was made probably in the twelfth or early thirteenth century. His research in catoptrics centred on spherical and parabolic mirrors and spherical aberration and he made the observation that the ratio between the angle of incidence and refraction does not remain constant, and investigated the magnifying power of a lens. His work on catoptrics also contains the known as Alhazens problem. Alhazen wrote as many as 200 books, although only 55 have survived, some of his treatises on optics survived only through Latin translation. During the Middle Ages his books on cosmology were translated into Latin, Hebrew, the crater Alhazen on the Moon is named in his honour, as was the asteroid 59239 Alhazen. In honour of Alhazen, the Aga Khan University named its Ophthalmology endowed chair as The Ibn-e-Haitham Associate Professor, Alhazen, by the name Ibn al-Haytham, is featured on the obverse of the Iraqi 10, 000-dinar banknote issued in 2003, and on 10-dinar notes from 1982. The 2015 International Year of Light celebrated the 1000th anniversary of the works on optics by Ibn Al-Haytham, Alhazens most famous work is his seven-volume treatise on optics Kitab al-Manazir, written from 1011 to 1021. Optics was translated into Latin by a scholar at the end of the 12th century or the beginning of the 13th century

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The Guardian
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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper, known from 1821 until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, the Scott Trust became a limited company in 2008, with a constitution to maintain the same protections for The Guardian. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to the benefit of an owner or shareholders, the Guardian is edited by Katharine Viner, who succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. In 2016, The Guardians print edition had a daily circulation of roughly 162,000 copies in the country, behind The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper has an online UK edition as well as two international websites, Guardian Australia and Guardian US, the newspapers online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. Its combined print and online editions reach nearly 9 million British readers, notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowlers phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UKs biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, in 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Camerons links to offshore bank accounts. The Guardian has been named Newspaper of the Year four times at the annual British Press Awards, the paper is still occasionally referred to by its nickname of The Grauniad, given originally for the purported frequency of its typographical errors. The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle and they launched their paper after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they better than those that do. When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the champions had the upper hand. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, the prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty. Warmly advocate the cause of Reform, endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and. Support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, in 1825 the paper merged with the British Volunteer and was known as The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer until 1828. The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called the Manchester Guardian the foul prostitute, the Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labours claims. The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators –, if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. CP Scott made the newspaper nationally recognised and he was editor for 57 years from 1872, and became its owner when he bought the paper from the estate of Taylors son in 1907. Under Scott, the moderate editorial line became more radical, supporting William Gladstone when the Liberals split in 1886

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Sami Yusuf
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Sami Yusuf is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and songwriter. In 2003 Yusuf released his first album Al-Muallim at the age of 23 and he released his second album My Ummah in 2005. In October 2010, Yusufs third official album Wherever You Are was launched, Sami calls his genre of music Spiritique. Salaam is his album, that was released on 22 December 2012. On 12 September 2014, Yusufs fifth official album The Center was released, in January 2015, Sami Yusufs sixth official album Songs of the Way was released. His seventh album, Barakah, was released in February 2016, an ethnic Azeri born in Tehran, Iran, Yusuf was raised in London from the age of three. In one of his interviews Sami Yusuf said, Azerbaijan – my historical Motherland and my parents are Azerbaijanis, and grandparents were originally from Baku. His father loaned him a book on the basics of the Tombak which Yusuf studied, as a teenager he was a devotee of classical music and classical icons like Frédéric Chopin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, saying that he listened to Classic FM for hours a day. While producing and demo-recording for another singer, he became aware of his own singing abilities which were developed by the encouragement of his family. Divided between pursuing a career and studying law at Kings College London, Yusuf opted for music while committed to doing something dignified. Although he says that he has always been spiritual, he reconnected with his Islamic faith through a religious awakening at the age of sixteen, Yusuf self-produced and released his debut album Al-muallim at the age of 23. On 10 July 2003, shortly before traveling to Egypt to study Arabic, Sami Yusuf released his debut album Al-Muallim, the radiant cube and purple background of the album cover symbolized the light of the Prophetic message illuminating the darkness of the night. The last track, Supplication, was used in the Golden-Globe award-nominated film, All that wisdom has a thread of truth in it, it has the sacred in it, and thats what Im concerned with. Its celebrating that truth, bringing people closer to that timeless wisdom. ”More simply put, he said, by setting a new benchmark in the religious music industry. When asked if he was Sunni or Shia, Yusuf replied Im Muslim, Yusuf gained worldwide recognition following the release of his second album, My Ummah, on 6 July 2005. This album appeared in musical and percussive versions and includes fourteen tracks. My Ummah was an embodiment of Yusufs utopia for the Muslim World or humanity at large, Yusufs music video featuring the Afghan folklore Hasbi Rabbi became a regional hit in Egypt, and was used to launch Vodafone Egypts value-added-service platform Vodafone Live. A major addition to his repertoire was Oscar-winning director Marc Forsters proposal to Yusuf to compose a credit-piece for the Golden Globe award-nominated film

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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment

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Science education
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Science education is the field concerned with sharing science content and process with individuals not traditionally considered part of the scientific community. The standards for science education provide expectations for the development of understanding for students through the course of their K-12 education. The traditional subjects included in the standards are physical, life, earth, space, the first person credited with being employed as a Science teacher in a British public school was William Sharp who left the job at Rugby School in 1850 after establishing Science to the curriculum. Sharp is said to have established a model for Science to be throughout the British Public Schools. The next step came when the British Academy for the Advancement of Science published a report in 1867, BAAS promoted teaching of pure science and training of the scientific habit of mind. The progressive education movement of the supported the ideology of mental training through the sciences. BAAS emphasized separately pre-professional training in science education. In this way, future BAAS members could be prepared, the initial development of science teaching was slowed by the lack of qualified teachers. In both cases the influence of Thomas Henry Huxley was critical, john Tyndall was also influential in the teaching of physical science. In the US, science education was a scatter of subjects prior to its standardization in the 1890s, the development of a science curriculum in the US emerged gradually after extended debate between two ideologies, citizen science and pre-professional training. S. The committee was composed of ten educators and was chaired by Charles Eliot of Harvard University, the Committee of Ten met, and appointed nine conferences committees. The three conference committees appointed for science were, physics, astronomy, and chemistry, natural history, each committee, appointed by the Committee of Ten, was composed of ten leading specialists from colleges and normal schools, and secondary schools. Each committee met in a different location in the U. S, the three science committees met for three days in the Chicago area. Committee reports were submitted to the Committee of Ten, which met for four days in New York, in 1894, the NEA published the results of work of these conference committees. According to the Committee of Ten, the goal of high school was to all students to do well in life, contributing to their well-being. Another goal was to some students to succeed in college. This committee supported the citizen science approach focused on mental training, the BAAS encouraged their longer standing model in the UK. The US adopted a curriculum was characterized as follows, Elementary science should focus on natural phenomena by means of experiments carried out in-the-field

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Ahmed Salim
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Ahmed Salim is on The 500 Most Influential Muslims list of 2015/2016. His award-winning films have seen by more than 100 million people. It produces global educational programmes, exhibitions, live shows, short films, books, sharif came out of retirement specifically to participate in this film which has been selected by UNESCO as an official film supporting the United Nations proclaimed International Year of Light 2015. The film premiered during the 2015 Dubai International Film Festival In 2008, ahmed Salim is a Producer and Director of ETM International and Andante Studios, music and record labels that represents and produces music from the international artist and musician Sami Yusuf. Together, they produced and released the music video Shine as part of the United Nations proclaimed 2015 International Year of Light

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Khalid Abdalla
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Khalid Abdalla is a British Egyptian actor and activist. He came to prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, it chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, Abdalla played Ziad Jarrah, the pilot and leader of the four hijackers on board the flight. He starred as Amir in The Kite Runner and acted with Matt Damon in Green Zone, Abdalla appears as himself in Jehane Noujaims documentary on the ongoing Egyptian revolution, The Square, which won the Audience Award at Sundance Festival in 2013. Abdalla is on the board of the National Student Drama Festival, three months after it began, Mosireen became the most watched non-profit YouTube channel in Egypt of all time, and in the whole world in January 2012. Abdalla was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Egyptian parents, abdallas father and grandfather were well-known anti-regime activists in Egypt. His parents were physicians who immigrated to the UK before he was born. Abdalla was educated at Kings College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon in South West London and his classmates included actor Ben Barnes and he became interested in acting after becoming involved in his schools thriving drama scene. After spending a gap year travelling around the Middle East, Abdalla went on to Queens College, Cambridge where he read English and he was active in the student drama scene alongside the likes of contemporaries Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens. He was a joint winner with Cressida Trew, his future wife, in 2003, Abdalla played the title role in Christopher Marlowes Tamburlaine the Great at the Rose Theatre. This was the production of Peter Halls Canons Mouth Theatre Company composed of young actors intent on discovering a new voice for the great metaphorical dramas of the Renaissance. Abdallas first screen role was in a 2005 episode of Spooks entitled Infiltration of a New Threat, in 2006, Abdalla made his Hollywood debut in United 93, a film about the September 11 attacks, and garnered critical acclaim for his portrayal of one of the terrorist hijackers. He was cast in the role of the film The Kite Runner. In preparation for that role, he spent time in Kabul learning Dari Persian, in 2008, Abdalla appeared as Guy Pringle in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Fortunes of War. He starred as Freddy in Green Zone with Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, in 2009-10 Abdalla produced and acted in the independent Egyptian film In the Last Days of the City, directed by Tamer El Said, and currently in post-production. In November 2010 Abdalla was awarded recognition for achievements in cinema at the Cairo International Film Festival. In 2011 he was narrator in documentary film East to West, in 2016 he appeared as Muhammad XII of Granada in the film Assassins Creed. In January–February 2011, Abdalla was among protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo and he also appeared on Wolf Blitzer on CNN on 9 February 2011 and Anderson Cooper to reflect his views on the protest

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Salim Al-Hassani
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Salim T. S. Al-Hassani is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering and currently an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester. He is Chairman of the Foundation of Science, Technology and Civilisation, Salim Al-Hassani was raised in Baghdad, but has lived, studied and worked in the UK since the early 1960s. He also researched into, and is published on, the computational modeling of biomedical processes. Since 1968, Professor Al-Hassani, has published over 200 papers in international journals and he has supervised 40 PhD students,50 MSc students and numerous post-doctoral fellows from all parts of the world and holds patents on engineering. Over the past 20 years Al-Hassani’s interest has turned to promoting the cultural roots of science as a platform for community cohesion, intercultural appreciation, Al-Hassani established, and is Honorary President of, the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation, UK. Al-Hassani has authored and edited more than 300 publications on Muslim Heritage, including the book 1001 Inventions and these initiatives have been successful in promoting greater cohesion, respect and understanding between faiths and cultures. Furthermore, it reveals a past when Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sabians and others worked closely together, in 2001, Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani received the Fazlur Rahman Khan award for excellence in engineering, science and technology. The Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association is a distinguished honour, in February 2009, Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani was presented the Building Bridges Award by the Association of Muslim Social Scientists. During 2010,2011 and 2015 he was named amongst the 500 most influential Muslims in the world, in January 2014, Al-Hassani was nominated for the Science and Engineering award at the British Muslim Awards. Select bibliography, The effects of high rates on material properties

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International Year of Light
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IYL2015 opening ceremonies was held on 19–20 January 2015 in Paris. UNESCO delegates from Ghana and Mexico introduced the proposal to the Executive Board, the resolution was adopted by the Executive Board joined by co-signatories from a further 28 Board Members. Prince Andrew, Duke of York is a patron of IYL2015, the IYL2015 has been endorsed by a number of international Scientific Unions and the International Council for Science. The IYL2015 will be administered by an International steering committee convened by John M, the Founding Scientific Sponsors of IYL2015 are, European Physical Society SPIE Optical Society IEEE Photonics Society American Physical Society The international lightsources. The Opening Ceremony introduced the key themes of the year, acting as inspiration for events worldwide during 2015, over a thousand participants attended the event. Speakers and attendees included international diplomats and decision-makers, Nobel laureates, CEOs, the event also featured works from light artists around the world including Finnish light artist Kari Kola and US design team Light At Play. S. Innovation held at the National Academy of Sciences, the Wonders of Light event was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and was attended by hundreds of children and their parents. Exhibits included a variety of hands-on-optics and photonics displays, speakers at the event included,2014 Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura, National Science Foundation director France Córdova, Michael Liehr, Gerald Duffy and 2014 Nobel laureate Eric Betzig. The campaign was created by the 1001 Inventions organisation, which is a partner of the International Year of Light. In line with the event three organizations from Hyderabad viz MS Academy, Mesco and ILM Foundation launched i Quiz 2015 – a National level quiz competition on ‘Golden Age of Science’. The conference will allow for discussions about the state-of-the-art in this field, International observance 2015 in science Ahmed Khan, Sameen, Medieval Arab Understanding of the Rainbow Formation, Europhysics News, Vol.37, Issue 3, pp.10. Ahmed Khan, Sameen, Arab Origins of the Discovery of the Refraction of Light, Roshdi Hifni Rashed Awarded the 2007 King Faisal International Prize, Optics & Photonics News, Vol.18, No. EPS President John Dudley explains the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, SPIE. TV video interview, February 2014

Front page of the Opticae Thesaurus, which included the first printed Latin translation of Alhazen's Book of Optics. The illustration incorporates many examples of optical phenomena including perspective effects, the rainbow, mirrors, and refraction.